Today’s news: the bodies of three Israeli citizens murdered on October 7 were found in Gaza. China announces huge financing to eliminate the glut of unsold homes created by the housing bubble. North Korea wants to strengthen the country’s nuclear weapons. In Georgia, those who participate in protests risk being fired
AFGHANISTAN
Three Spanish tourists died in an attack carried out by armed men in the province of Bamiyan, in central Afghanistan, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported yesterday. The Taliban are promoting tourist visits and Bamiyan is home to a site declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. This is one of the most serious attacks against citizens of other countries since foreign forces left Afghanistan in 2021.
CHINA
Beijing has announced funding of 300 billion yuan (about $40 billion) to help eliminate excess unsold housing, as well as measures to ensure builders have access to financing and encourage the resale of “idle” land. . This is the most ambitious effort yet to save the real estate sector and shore up the broader economy. The initiative will allow local authorities to buy unsold homes and then offer them at affordable prices.
NORTH KOREA
After the joint military exercise between Seoul and Washington, in which stealth fighter jets simulated aerial confrontations, Kim Jong Un ordered to accelerate production to strengthen the country’s nuclear force. The intention is to “meet the reckless military challenge of the enemies,” the leader said Friday during a visit to a weapons factory.
GEORGIA
In Georgia, several officials and workers of public companies were fired because they had been identified in protest demonstrations against the law on “foreign influence”, which managers were prohibited from attending. Among them is Georgij Mukhigulašvili, an invalid who worked as a street sweeper in Tbilisi. Demonstrations continue every night in many cities across the country.
INDIA
Sonia Gandhi, leader of the Congress Party of India, has made a emotional appeal to voters in his family’s neighborhood – in Raebareli, which will go to the polls in the fifth phase of India’s general elections on May 20 – to ask them to vote for his son in a region that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and their party have dominated for the last decade. His son Rahul is running as a candidate from that same region.
ISRAEL
The Israeli army reported that, in a night operation in Gaza, there were recovered the bodies of three hostages – Shani Louk, Amit Buskila and Itzhak Gelerenter – who were taken to the Strip on October 7 and found in a Hamas tunnel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was “heartbreaking” news. The three victims were killed at a road junction near the site of the Nova Festival in southern Israel.
RUSSIA-UKRAINE
In the church of Saint Elizabeth of Opalikh, in Krasnogorsk, Moscow province, they have begun to offer survival courses taught by veterans of the Ukrainian war and aimed at children from 12 years old, who will be able to learn for free how to “resist “Firearms.” Orthodox priests will also attend and deliver “sermons on patriotism in life.”
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